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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

By : Mark Walker
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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

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By: Mark Walker
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
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Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
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Preface
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Preface
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So, What Is This SAP HANA Thing Anyways?
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So, What Is This SAP HANA Thing Anyways?
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Time for action – statistics about internal commercial flights in the USA from 1998 to 2011
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Understanding the performance of SAP HANA
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Summary
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SAP HANA Studio – Installation and First Look
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SAP HANA Studio – Installation and First Look
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Getting access to SAP HANA
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Running the installation
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Welcome to the SAP HANA Studio
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Connecting to the SAP HANA server
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Importing sample data
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Previewing the sample data
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Summary
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Your First SAP HANA Development – An Attribute View
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Your First SAP HANA Development – An Attribute View
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Creating a delivery unit
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Creating a package
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Creating an attribute view
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Advanced features of attribute views
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Summary
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Quick reference
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Painting with Numbers – An Analytic View
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Painting with Numbers – An Analytic View
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Creating an analytic view
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Adding an attribute view to an analytic view
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Advanced features of analytic views
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Summary
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Let's Get Graphical – Graphical Calculation Views
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Let's Get Graphical – Graphical Calculation Views
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What is a graphical calculation view?
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Creating a graphical calculation view
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You Talking to Me? – Scripted Calculation Views
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You Talking to Me? – Scripted Calculation Views
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Creating a scripted calculation view
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Summary
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Hey! That's My Data! – Authorizations in SAP HANA
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Hey! That's My Data! – Authorizations in SAP HANA
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Roles
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Analytic privileges
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System privileges
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Package privileges
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Users
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Testing our user and role
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Summary
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On Another Level – Hierarchies in SAP HANA
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On Another Level – Hierarchies in SAP HANA
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Hierarchy types in SAP HANA
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Creating a hierarchy in SAP HANA
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Viewing data according to a hierarchy
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Summary
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Deploying Your Reporting Application to Reporting Software
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Deploying Your Reporting Application to Reporting Software
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Getting software to talk to SAP HANA
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SAP Lumira
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Microsoft Excel®
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Tableau software
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Summary
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Quick tool comparison
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Data Provisioning Using Data Services
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Data Provisioning Using Data Services
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About the sample data
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Understanding the BODS main screen
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Creating a Data Services project
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Summary
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Application Development Using the XS Engine
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Application Development Using the XS Engine
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Checking the XS Engine
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Understanding XS Engine applications
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Creating an application using XS Engine
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Hello, World!
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XS Engine database access
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Developing user interfaces using SAPUI5
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Summary
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So Long and Thanks – Where To Go from Here
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So Long and Thanks – Where To Go from Here
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What we've covered
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Now it's your turn
Index
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Index

Creating an attribute view

The first object we'll be creating is called an attribute view. This is the basic building-block for nearly all SAP HANA developments.

An attribute view takes the characteristic (text) information from one or more tables, and presents it to the user. It allows several operations to be carried out on data such as the following:

  • Information can be filtered on specific values

  • Tables can be joined together

  • Certain fields can be hidden from the user if they are not appropriate to the current development

    Note

    Attribute views have one major restriction: they cannot work with numeric information. You cannot, for example, use a SALARY or REVENUE field in an attribute view. To work with numeric information, we'll use an analytic view, which we'll be looking at in Chapter 4, Painting with Numbers – An Analytic View.

In our attribute view, we'll be using the data from our CUSTOMER table. This table has four fields: MANDT, CUSTID, SECTOR, and COUNTRY. We'll only be using three of...

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